The American farm book : or, Compend of American agriculture ; being a practical treatise on soils, manures, draining irrigation, grasses, grain, roots, fruits, cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, rice, and every staple product of the United States, with the best methods of planting, cultivating, and preparation for market ;illustrated by more than 100 engravings (1860)
Author: Allen, Richard Lamb, 1803-1869
Subject: Agriculture
Publisher: New York : C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co. ; San Francisco : H.H. Bancroft & Co.
Language: English
Call number: 30553563
Digitizing sponsor: NCSU Libraries
Book contributor: NCSU Libraries
Collection: americana
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"The American Farm Book was first published ... under the title of 'A Brief Compend of American Agriculture.'" -- Advertisement, p. [iv]
Bookplates on front paste-down and front fly-leaf
Brown blind stamped cloth binding
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